Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels Seed Extract and their Potential Medicinal Applications.

Aim: Nanotechnology is considered as one of the fastest-developing areas in the biomedicine field. Hence, the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from Syzygium cumini seed extract was carried out in this study.

Methodology: The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, FTIR (Fourier transform infrared), FE-SEM (Field Emission scanning electron microscopic), AFM (Atomic Force Microscope), XRD (X-ray diffraction), and EDX (Energy dispersive X-Ray).

Single stage: dorsolateral onlay buccal mucosal urethroplasty for long anterior urethral strictures using perineal route.

Objective: To assess the outcome of single stage dorsolateral onlay buccal mucosal urethroplasty for long anterior urethral strictures (>4cm long) using a perineal incision.

Materials And Methods: From August 2010 to August 2013, 20 patients underwent BMG urethroplasty. The cause of stricture was Lichen sclerosis in 12 cases (60%), Instrumentation in 5 cases (25%), and unknown in 3 cases (15%).

Staged buccal mucosa urethroplasty in reoperative hypospadias.

Introduction: Repeated attempts at surgical repair of serious complications involving either the partial or complete breakdown of the hypospadias repair are less likely to succeed because the penis is densely scarred, or significantly shortened, and the skin over the penis is immobile and hypovascular. Buccal mucosa (BM) has become the preferred material for reconstruction, whenever a child with skin-deficient hypospadias needs reoperation. We report the results of our surgical experience with staged reoperation using BM, in the repair of hypospadias in children with complications after multiple failed repairs.

Laparoscopic hemi/partial nephrectomy in children with ureteral duplication anomalies.

Introduction: Recent advances in laparoscopic surgery as well as increasing experience with these techniques have led to the selection of laparoscopic surgery for hemi/partial nephroureterectomy in children with a non/poorly functioning moiety in a duplex kidney. There is very little data on the long term follow-up of such children. We report our experience of laparoscopic hemi-nephroureterectomy in children with duplex moiety.